[CMake] How do you put specific files in the build directory?

[Michael Jackson]

What they do is hard code the path to the zip file into a preprocessor define and then use that preprocessor define in their code. So you have a header template:

ZipFileLocation.h.in and in there have something like this:

#define ZIP_FILE_LOCATION @ZIP_FILE_LOCATION@

Then in your normal CMakeLists.txt file you have this:

set (ZIP_FILE_LOCATION "some path to your zip file")
configure_file(ZipFileLocation.h.in  ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/ZipFileLocation.h @ONLY immediate)
include_Directories(${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR})

Then in your source file
#include "ZipFileLocation.h"

Those are the rough instructions. All from memory. I may have missed something.

___________________________________________________________
Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net 
BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio

On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Doug wrote:

> In my project I build a library and a series of tests; so the result is something like:
> 
> build/libblah.so
> build/tests/test_series
> build/tests/test_archives
> etc.
> 
> One of the tests I want to run (test_archives) reads from a zip file; however, for my test to run successfully it needs a zip file place into the tests folder.
> 
> Current the test zip file lives in src/tests/test.zip
> 
> What's the right way to do this?
> 
> I see some libraries use configure_file to generate headers in the build directory, but that doesn't seem useful in this case...
> 
> Cheers,
> Doug.
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